Thread #833697

Heyo
We're pretty much at the end of another week eh

Appare-Ranman!
^{Episode 1-2}
Fugou Keiji Balance - Unlimited
Honzuki no Gekokujou
^{Episode 16-17}
Jashin-chan Dropkick'
^{Episode 5-11}
Kakushigoto
Nami yo Kiitekure
^{Episode 1-3}
Plunderer
Yesterday wo Utatte

HorribleSubs still hasn't done a re-release for Tamayomi to fix the QUALITY release but [Erai-Raws] does have a V2 that is the better version.
As a reminder Erai-Raws does have subtitles despite their name so it's pretty much exactly the same as HorribleSubs, they just rip from the translated simulcast.
I don't know if they do XDCC releases though.

can't wait for the excel saga remake

Did that get a remake announcement? I didn't catch something like that.

no
but my wishful thinking worked for dorohedoro
maybe this will come true too

I hope your wishful thinking is right.

appare 1
nami yo kitekure 1
yesterday
kashigoto
jashin 5

okay
appare ep 1
i have no idea what these are
okay
lets start!

I think Appare is a kind of Meiji-era The Amazing Race across America by a samurai and a low-caste Japanese engineer after they get shipwrecked and end up in LA.
It kinda sounds like a neat premise and it's a P.A. Works original.
>>833709
Beep boop Rika

ready

weird cars
big cars
fancy cars

Yeah there's a whole lotta cars.
I guess there's some liberty with historical accuracy for the sake of style.
That's fine though.

The marks at the side of his face are weird.

i love long drives
id love to do a marathon drive like that

There's a kind of romance to it, isn't there.

That's one of the reasons I'm really hoping the JoJo's anime adaptation get to part seven eventually, since it's a cross-America race like this, full of weird JoJo characters.
Though in that case it's on horseback rather than car, for the most part.

they're not wasting any time on setup at all...

I bet we're getting some set-up after the OP.
Wouldn't be surprised if we don't actually get back to the race until the end of the episode.

this could end up being either okay or meh
i dont see it hitting either extreme

P.A. Works originals tend to be all over the place.
They usually have pretty solid starts at the least.
Occasionally you get a home run like Shirobako at least.

Most of them fall into a range like Sakura Quest I think, where they're good but not stellar.

And then occasionally you get a Glasslip and gosh it's just plain weak.

mediocrity isn't a bad thing

What an atypical petty samurai lord hah hah
Though I guess for the crime of wrecking his garden Appare's lucky he didn't get outright executed.

I kinda like his style, though the colours are a bit eccentric.
And the rope bow on the back is particularly weird.

Steam machinery is definitely pretty cool though.
If we get some nice visual focus on it for this series I'd be pretty happy.

That's not a very well-hidden escape route.
The hole doesn't even blend in with the ground and the door sticks out too.

where'd he get the money for this

Maybe despite his family's grumbling they still look out for him and provide for him.
Plus the Meiji Era was a time of a lot of reconstruction and infrastructure-building, maybe it was easier to get component parts for machinery.

Neat to see them using historical measurements like ri and what the Japanese called compass-directions at the time.

America!

hmm that was interesting
we'll see on it
time for another new one!

nami yo kitekite

yyeah i have yesterday 3 as well

oaky
let's start!

can't say im sold on it yet
there's still time for it to make an impression though

ready for nami

(what episode for Yesterday after this?)

Should be episode three for Yesterday.

I think Nami is another older-focus drama.
Probably won't have the sentimental charm of Yesterday.
But I dunno it's been a while since I looked at the synopsis for the new shows.

Wait bears don't woof

you dont know that

I do know that!

what major plot point did i miss from yesterday 2?
brief is fine

Hm, Sensei cut her hair, used to love a guy from her hometown who died when she was in highschool, and she and the MC agreed it was impossible to keep being friends because of the tension between them now after his rejection.

thanks
that's rough
i think i woulda liked that episode

If you've got the free time over the weekend I'd still recommend going back to look at it.
There's a few other details I skipped over and there was some Haru stuff despite her being not the focus of the episode.

yeah i will
i was considering watching it right now instead of this but this caught my eye

this might be good

I don't know if I missed it but I don't know why this lady is doing her broadcast staring down a bear.

Oh it's just an act.
That makes more sense.

yeah it's just her internal stage to shake off the anxiety i think?

Wow she's talking a lot

She's a radio show host!
You gotta talk a lot for that.

>>833747
Yeah, that or her show has some silly gag to it where she's always in some kind of nightmare situation.
I could see that being something a Japanese radio show would do for a gimmick.

oh hm
now im more confused
im not sure what they're up to

It sounds like her producer had a plot in mind where she'd get munched on by the bear but she's taking it off the rails.

How does anyone focus on the actual stuff she's reading though with this bit going on hah hah

I feel kinda bad for her show's staff.
It seems like she makes a lot of work for them.

This woman's kind of a beautiful disaster.

>YUKI
when the OP was playing i was just thinking how id love some new YUKI tracks

He name-dropped Utada Hikaru too.
Weird little bundle of classic idols there.

September Brew Moon

i like this girl
she's relatable

Yeah, she's pretty charming.

Did she hear herself on a live show or something.
Or did they replace her without telling her and she's pissed now.
I don't quite get how I'm supposed to be reading this.

this is in the past i think
i thought he // i dunno exactly
>>833761
it's nice background

Imagine being her VA
you'd have to talk so much

>>833760
I think I'm getting it now yeah.
The bear show was probably in media res and the part where she was bitching at this guy in the bar was the real story start.
She probably ranted at him for hours after she blacked out drunk and this rant was all from that.

yeah, that's what i was tracking, that he was playing her conversation from the bar
she got pissed and headed down there and that's how she ended up with this job where she fills up airspace with weird anxious chatter

i like this

She's quite the character.
It's nice to have such an energetic MC hah hah

There's something a little heartwarming about a woman so angry she'll announce a manhunt for her ex on live radio.

sometimes you have so much to say that you don't want to bother saying anything at all

i know that feeling

yesterday!
okay
lets start!

These two shows kinda have some overlap.
Both deal with young adults a bit adrift in life.
Though the energy levels are quite different.

She's pretty content to just stand out in the rain in nothing more than a sweater.

the rain feels great

Episode three with still no OP
By now I wonder if it's a choice or if they're just still working on it.

Well they're not making good of their intents to quit being friends.
Not that it's the kind of thing that really just happens overnight.
You can't really just agree to not be friends anymore, unless it comes off the explosion of a bad fight or something.

She's working real hard to win Rikuo over.
What a nice girl.

this town has such a cozy atmosphere
im intensely envious

it really feels like honey and clover in a lot of respects

maybe they'll wait a few eps and then reveal a yuki OP

A lot of these satellite towns in Japan are super cozy.
The Japanese really understand how to blend residential and small commercial together to make a good community.
I wish more parts of the world did urban design like they do.

>creepy mass media type dude
straight from that last show into this one

I hope he doesn't ditch his date with Haru for this.
It's important to look after people who are sick but Sensei is still young!
She can probably handle a day or two of illness.

these homes are so cozy too
and the 4-pack eggs
aaaa

;_;
Ah Rikuo you halfwit

stood up and left in the rain
aaaa
poor girl

Oh it wasn't intentional he overslept.
Still a doofus for trying to juggle too many obligations.
But I guess that doesn't make it entirely his fault.

Aaaah bad communication

I guess there probably wasn't really a good route out of that nightmare though.

id love working at a convenience store in such a cozy place

Yeah, I'm not big on working in retail environments.
But Japanese conbini are pretty nice places.

Hah hah
She couldn't make a run for it since the light was red.
Oh but now she's holding up the van.

Being able to get coffee delivered from a small cafe that probably really cares about the coffee they make sounds fantastic.
You can do that with places like McDonald's or Starbucks here, but I can't think of an independent cafe I've been to that offers that.

if only real people had that much conscience and consideration
that'd be really sweet

things don't usually work out that smooth really!

the girl reminds me of mayuri, but more spicy

Mayuri was also way more ungrounded.
She like perpetually had her head in the clouds.
Or at least pretended to in part to avoid making trouble for people.

Haru seems much more grounded.

That was adorable at the end though.
She's a really nice character.
The manga this is adapting is pretty old I think.
Weird they slept on it for so long.

kashigoto

okay
let's start!

i didn't get this, ummm
episode 4?

Yeah, episode four.

This is a series by the same mangaka as Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei.
So if you like his off-kilter satirical humour, this is in that same flavour.

Plus this one has some ridiculously heartwarming moments to it.

oh yeah
im going to catch up on this from the start

you two go ahead without me for now!
i'll make some food before the next show

She looks a bit dead inside in the flash-forward bits.

yeah this looks really good
i started it anyway but i (probably) won't stay for the whole thing

It's definitely one of the highlights of the season.

>I debuted with my real name without thinking
Oh this is a real worry hah hah.

it's important that people who know your real name don't know your pen name and vice versa!
that can get really bad

Hah hah
I guess Japan's getting a similar thing with parents coming up with weird names for their kids lately too.

This really feels a lot like a continunation of SZS.

yeah

The humour is definitely right in that same boat.
Kakushigoto though also has a ll these wholesome bits and earnest struggles of raising a daughter as a single dad too.
That's kind of like a little extra icing on top of a cake as far as it goes though.

>They haven't asked me to do a coloured page in years
Ouch

JK-chan is cute.

Hah hah the eyes on that bust

There are some mangaka who are pretty skilled at art overall.
Like Naruto's mangaka is properly trained from years in art school.
And JoJo's mangaka has spent a lot of time over the years practicing fundamental skills.

But then you get people like Oda, One Piece's mangaka, who basically just has his style and that's it.
There's nothing wrong with that of course he's just an example of an artist that went deep into one style.

Poor Sensei

I think that you need to stufy fundamental stuff to be a good manga artist.
people who never deviate from "their style" don't improve nearly as much.

you can always be a storyboard artist without any art skills
just visual writing
let someone else do the actual illustrations

>>833816
There's lot of approaches to getting better.
Studying the fundamentals is definitely the most straightforward route to improvement and that usually translates into improvement speed, yeah.
But you can make up for straightforwardness with sheer work.
Which is usually what inevitably happens when you're making a weekly manga serialization hah hah.
It's not like they've got the free time to go study the fundamentals anyway.

This is such a good song for the ED man.
Right out of the 1980s Japanese music scene.

okay
dropkick 5!
okay
lets start!

okay
yeah

Duroppu kikku
>>833822
Just to make sure did you get season two episode five?
They dumped the whole season on us so there isn't a clear indicator which is the most recent episode.

Cute tote bag though

i saw a mahjong scene in one screencap from this
dropped on the mahjong general

Yeah it got my hopes up when I saw it in the PV
It just ended up being like a single shot gag though.

nice lip synching

>You left out Pekola
Who the fuck is ignoring Pekola I'm gonna beat them up

Oh the bread is becoming an MLM scheme.

It's always struck me weird that jashin-chan never wears a shirt
and no one says anything about it

I feel like the fact that she's got a snake tail for legs is probably the bigger distraction.

and why do mandrakes always scream

Mandrakes?
>>833832
Are you sure you're watching season two, episode five?

To answer the question of mandrakes though, the actual plant does look vaguely humanoid and because it's got apothocaric purposes it has a long history of being associated with witchcraft and the occult.
So I guess somewhere along the lines its humanoid nature made people think it's sentient and screams when uprooted.

wow mean

oh my bot played a very mean trick on me wow

all plants actually scream when plucked! it's just outside human range of audible frequencies

that's why bats live in caves instead of in trees! it's too noisy there for them

Sure but mandrakes in myth audibly scream!

There's been a lot of good Yurine faces this episode.

Any misfortune Jashin suffers is generally deservedly received.
She's quite the villain at times.

Hah hah hah

This is actually somewhat true!
As a part of the season two marketing campaign they did to get this season greenlit they had the characters from the show do some VTuber stuff.
They're probably not famous but the VTuber stuff was likely a good boost for this series getting its second season.

friday already

What is time even anymore.
Everything and nothing seems to go by in the blink of an eye

time is a centrifuge

Well thanks for anime.
Enjoy the weekend!

yep, i guess that's it
see you next time